Psalm 139-141; 1 Corinthians 10

From today's Bible reading:

Psalm 139:

O LORD, you have searched me and known me!

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

(God is a thinker!)

Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 140:

Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually

They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps.

I say to the LORD, You are my God; give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O LORD!

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.

Psalm 141:

O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!


1 Corinthians 10:

they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction

let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.

God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability

with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.